Replication of �Spinning the Globe? U.S. Public Diplomacy and Foreign Public Opinion� (Benjamin E. Goldsmith, Yusaku Horiuchi), Journal of Politics, Vol. 71, Issue 3, pp. 863-875, July 2009.* Description: Global public opinion has emerged as a prominent issue in international relations. But have U.S. public diplomacy efforts during the post-9/11 period successfully improved foreign publics� appraisals of U.S. foreign policy? We examine this question by estimating the effects of U.S. high-level visits to foreign countries on public opinion in those countries. We base our theoretical arguments on the political communication literature, but extend them to consider transnational dynamics in international relations. Specifically, we argue that U.S. leaders� credibility in the eyes of foreign publics is critical in shaping attitudes toward U.S. foreign policy. Empirically, we show that the effects of such visits were initially significantly large and positive, but weakened once the war in Iraq began and international media started reporting negative aspects of the �war on terror.� Most interestingly, we find some evidence that high-level visits eventually exhibited a backlash effect.* Files included in this compressed replication package- jop2009.do
- figure1.do[folder] data
- jop2009_control.dta- jop2009_main.dta
- figure1.dta
[folder] output * Files are generated and saved in this folder
[folder] log * Files are generated and saved in this folder
[folder] fig * Files are generated and saved in this folder
* Program: Stata Version 13.1

* Additional programs required:
- Install the estout package with the following command: ssc install estout
- Install the clarify package (1) type the following command: net from https://gking.harvard.edu/clarify, (2) then type: net install clarify


* Process of Replication:
(1) Download ReplicationPackage file
(2) Set the working directory, which should be the folder with this ReadMe file
(3) Run Figure1.do to generate Figure 1.
(4) Run jop2009.do to generate all results saved in the output, log, fig folders.

* Most Recent Data of Successful Replication: March 11, 2018
